When they were departed, Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying,. "Arise, and take the child and his mother, and fly into Egypt, and abide there till I bring thee word: For Herod will seek the child to destroy him."

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the Prophets: No, I am not come to destroy them but to fulfill them.

And fear ye not them which kill the body, and be not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body into hell.

Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

They said unto him, He will cruelly destroy those evil persons; and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall deliver him the fruit at times convenient.

and said, "This fellow said, I can destroy the temple of God, and build the it again in three days."

But the chief priests and the elders had persuaded the people, that they should ask Barabbas, and should destroy Jesus.